SOC219H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Karla Homolka, Netflix, Ethnography
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Used his masculinity to pull himself out of the case. Karla homolka using her gender as well, police present her as innocent against her husband. Had gender stereotypes not come into play, crime could"ve been solved 2 years earlier. How crime is seen as crime, sentences given/not given. Step 1: identifying the empirical evidence presented in the text. Step 2: identifying the conceptual argument presented in the text. Step3: interrogating the underlying presumptions, contradictions, and implications of the text. The key: learning to ask questions that matter. One of the underlying assumptions of the term collective consciousness is that society exists and is unified by shared beliefs. However, we know that men and women occupy different positions of power within the social world. Madriz analyzes how people define criminals and crime. This impacts whether they see themselves as victims and whether they report abuse to authorities.
